** Quoting Murray Lesser to Arnaud De Bonald:

AB> Is there a library available to compile QuidkBasic code or Visual
  > Basic/DOS code to 16 bits OS/2 .exe?
ML> I sometimes use the Microsoft BASIC PDS 7.1 compiler (vintage 1990)
  > [...] You might advertise to see if anybody has one for sale.

Why would he want to do that (unless he's trying to save money and
doesn't mind a used copy) when he could order it from a number of mail
order shops?  I know that Provantage carries it.

ML> PDS 7.x is not completely compatible with QuickBASIC; but none of
  > the> versions of QuickBASIC were completely compatible with each
  > other!

AFAIR, the only "incompatibilities" between QB 4.5 and PDS 7.x is that
PDS adds a number of new commands, and those commands may conflict with
variables of the same name (for example DIR$ is a popular variable name,
yet PDS adds a DIR$ function not found in QB).  Other than that, the
only problems one is likely to run into involve getting string segments
and such (mostly when using far strings, as I recall), but anyone doing
that is not going to have much of a problem making the necessary
changes. :)

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